-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I currently maintain a number of small bacula installations for organizations that only use a single tape drive and do full backups every week night. One issue that cause some grief is holidays - there is no one around to change the tape and the situation is not handled as elegantly as I would like. I did some research and stumbled upon the following python script that does exactly what I want: the script checks a text file with a simple holiday schedule entered in a month/day format and will return 0 or 1 upon execution. http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~annis/creations/period.py.html I tried a simple RunBeforeJob with the script itself - after fudging the holiday file to make today look like a holiday. The script returned a 1 - - as it should - but the job continued running. I thought that if a 0 is not returned from a script then the director would abort executing the job - exactly what I want for my single tape drive environment. Here is the relevant bits from my bacula-dir.conf: Job { Name = "TESTER" Type = Backup RunBeforeJob = "/etc/bacula/period.py" Client = testlet-fd FileSet = "Full Set" Schedule = "WeeklyCycle" Storage = DDS-3 Messages = Standard Pool = Default Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/NightlySave.bsr" Max Start Delay = 22h } and from the log: 06-Mar 09:51 testlet-dir: No prior Full backup Job record found. 06-Mar 09:51 testlet-dir: No prior or suitable Full backup found. Doing FULL backup. 06-Mar 09:51 testlet-dir: RunBefore: 1 06-Mar 09:51 testlet-dir: Start Backup JobId 6, Job=TESTER.2006-03-06_09.51.28 06-Mar 09:51 testlet-sd: Job TESTER.2006-03-06_09.51.28 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "DDS-3" (/dev/nst0) Media type: DDS-3 Pool: Default The RunBefore returns a 1 - but the job progresses. I am sure there is a much more elegant way to integrate this python script into the new bacula python framework - but i am certainly not the guy to try that ... :) Any thoughts on the best way to do this is greatly appreciated. Dave - -- Dave Dmytriw Principal, NetCetera Solutions Inc. Calgary, AB 403-703-1399 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netcetera-solutions.com "It's about using NetWorks, Etc..." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEDHBwDcivrcMaKcIRAnr0AJ9ZbIB02T01XFPhw2L1vF7gTJb7hACbByjG 3GPxtKRMOk+YlbEZl4dkatY= =LmaD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
